Re: [hylafax-users] 4.1.4 and high faxgetty cpu usage

[Joe Phillips <jaiger@acm.org>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:01:23AM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> On 2002.10.21 05:18 Giulio Orsero wrote:
> >I installed 4.1.4 on a Red Hat 6.x and 7.x machines and faxgetty would
> >start
> >using much cpu time some time after it was started (no fax sent or
> >received
> >in the meantime).
> 
> Note that 4.1.4 faxgetty polls for lockfiles.  So if disk activity is 
> extremely heavy this could be a problem.

I'd expect polling for lock files to be disk/io-bound and not cpu bound.
This would indicate that even if it polled the disk lots more, and
the disk is heavily used, the process would be blocked on disk-io (and
not show cpu activity as a result)

just a thought.

-joe
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